How well do you know your school's history?

[basho]

We all like to brag about how our school is the best, how other schools cannot match it and crap. But do you know your own school's history? Do you know the history of the "other" schools you so like to bash?

[§ínned™]

I like this thread. Very intelligent. ;)

When I was in college, I wrote for the V's Usapang Uste department. Usapang Uste is a compendium of the UST histories told in a very delightful manner. This department gives the students valuable snippets of the very rich history of the Pontifical and Royal Unversity. I've also read about the rich histories of the different universities in the Philippines, as well as perused through some of the world's esteemed universities.

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[Maverick]

eto medyo "hardcore" history ng mapua...

The Mapua Institute of Technology was established on January 20, 1925 by the late Don Tomas Mapua, a graduate in Architecture from Cornell University. Don Tomas, who was a supervising architect of the then Bureau of Public Works, saw the need for Filipino architects and engineers in the development of the Philippines.

The first curricular offerings of the newly established Mapua Institute of Technology were civil engineering and a special two-year course leading to a Certificate of Proficiency in Architecture. Three years later, the M.I.T. High School Department was established. By 1934, M.I.T. began to offer mining engineering, chemical engineering and chemistry. During that time, the Mapua Institute of Technology was the only school in the country offering these three courses. Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering were added to the course offerings a few years later.

All the buildings and equipment of the Institute were totally destroyed by the Japanese occupation forces during World War II. After the war, the M.I.T., like the rest of the country, started to rebuild itself. Shortly after the liberation of Manila, the M.I.T. started its reconstruction.

The process of development and expansion has continued since then, an indication of the Institute’s commitment to meet the growing needs of the student population and to further upgrade its academic standards.

December 22, 1965 was a sad day for the whole Institute. Don Tomas Mapua, founder and first President passed away.

But even with his passing, the tradition of excellence that he established did not falter. On January 29, 1967, Oscar B. Mapua, a graduate in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was inaugurated as the second President of the Institute. Other educational qualifications of President Mapua include being a holder of M.S. Management and M.N.S.A as well as a recipient of Doctor of Technology “honoris causa” at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. Mrs. Gloria Mapua Lim was installed as Vice President and Treasurer. Don Tomas Mapua’s legacy lives on.

The number of course offerings has grown through the years even while the course offerings have remained technological. To date, the variety of courses offered are: architecture and planning, chemistry, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and communications engineering, civil engineering, environmental and sanitary engineering, mechanical engineering, geology, mining engineering, metallurgical engineering, computer engineering, industrial engineering, industrial design, and master of science in chemistry. The school also runs a pre-engineering/technological high school.

All collegiate classes are held at Intramuros while the high school department is housed at the M.I.T. complex along Don Tomas Mapua Street, Sta. Cruz, Manila.

Enrollment for the college is designed to maintain a student population of about 12,000 students. Admission of new college freshmen depends upon their passing the M.I.T. entrance examination in addition to the N.C.E.E. (NSAT na ba ito ngayon?) Out of some ten thousand college freshmen applicants who take the M.I.T. entrance exam every year, the college admits only the top three thousand five hundred students. Transfer students are not admitted unless they are of scholarship calibre. Since M.I.T has reached the optimum in it’s program of school expansion, its present thrust is quality engineering education through very strict selective admission and retention policies. The Institute’s program is now focused on the faculty development projects, improvement of laboratory and library facilities as well as audio-visual facilities, along with the acquisition of new computer hardware among others.


but with all the things happening inside and around the institute at present, i believe madadagdagan itong history na ito. ito kasi yung scenario nung umalis ako dun. ngayon, kahit hindi ko nararanasan yung mga improvements na ginagawa ngayon sa mapua (courtesy of the new management), masaya na rin kasi alma mater ko yan, at for five years naging parang bahay ko na rin yan. :D